On this day: April 9

General Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House, NASA picks its first seven astronauts, the Houston Astrodome opens, and Iraqis tear down Saddam Hussein's statue in a liberated Baghdad, all on this day.

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1940: Early in World War II, Germany invades Denmark and Norway in Operation Weserübung. The Germans defended the move as preemptive effort to protect the countries' neutrality from a Franco-British attack and occupation.

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